Second International Balkan Conference on Communications and Networking
Podgorica, Montenegro, June 6-8,2018
Second International Balkan Conference on Communications and Networking
Podgorica, Montenegro, June 6-8,2018
Closing the Digital Gap
Technical Program
Opening Ceremony
Time: Wednesday, June 6, 2018 - 8:30 - 9:00
Opening remarks by the Ministry of Economy of Montenegro, followed by welcome and introduction from the conference General Chairs and the TPC Chairs.
[Back to Program]Session 1: MAC and NET Layer
Time: Wednesday, June 6, 2018 - 9:00 - 10:15
Chair: Enrico Natalizio
| Channel Assignment in IEEE 802.11-based Substitution Networks Anthony Busson (Ecole Normale Superieure & Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallelisme, France), Isabelle Guerin Lassous (Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - LIP, France), Ha Pham The Anh (Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France) |
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| Joint Routing and Scheduling for NOMA-Enabled Wireless Networks Ezgi Mete (TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey), Tolga Girici (TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey) |
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| A Smart Urban Routing System Based on IoT Technologies Edoardo Longo (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Alessandro E. C. Redondi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Matteo Cesana (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Antonio Capone (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) |
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| Coded Random Access with Energy Harvesting Users Jelena Bjelica (Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia), Dejan Vukobratovic (University of Novi Sad, Serbia) |
Session 2: Machine Learning Techniques for Networks
Time: Wednesday, June 6, 2018 - 13:30 - 14:45
Chair: Cagri Gungor
| A Machine Learning Approach to Predict Advanced Malware Mehmet Yaman (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey), Can Altinigne (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey), Serif Bahtiyar (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey) |
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| Occupancy Estimation Using Low-Cost Wi-Fi Sniffers Paolo Galluzzi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Edoardo Longo (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Alessandro E. C. Redondi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Matteo Cesana (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) |
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| Neural Network-based Channel Estimation for 2x2 and 4x4 MIMO Communication in Noisy Channels Kanghyeok Yang (University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA), Mehmet Can Vuran (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA), Stephen Scott (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA), Fujuan Guo (University of Nebraska- Lincoln, USA), Changbum Ryan Ahn (Texas A&M University, USA) |
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| Analyzing Wi-Fi Mesh Data for Smart Steering Oguz Koksal (Sabanci University, Turkey), Bulut Kuskonmaz (Sabanci University, Turkey), Abdurrahman Ayhan (Sabanci University, Turkey), Salim Eryigit (Airties Wireless Networks, Turkey), Huseyin Ozkan (Sabanci University, Turkey), Ozgur Gurbuz (Sabanci University, Turkey) |
Sponsor Talk: Agency for Electronic Communications and Postal Services of Montenegro
Overview of the Electronic Communications Market in Montenegro
Time: Wednesday, June 6, 2018 - 14:45 - 15:00
Invited Talk: Zoran Hadzi-Velkov
State of Affairs of Scientific Research in the Western Balkans
Time: Wednesday, June 6, 2018 - 15:00 - 15:30
Session 3: Sensor Networks and Video Streaming
Time: Wednesday, June 6, 2018 - 15:30 - 16:45
Chair: Mehmet Can Vuran
| A Proposed Algorithm for Data Measurements Synchronization in Wireless Sensor Networks Sofia Fanarioti (Ionian University, Greece), Athanasios Tsipis (Ionian University, Greece), Konstantinos Giannakis (Ionian University, Greece), George Koufoudakis (Ionian University, Greece), Eleni Christopoulou (Ionian University, Greece), Konstantinos Oikonomou (Ionian University, Greece), Ioannis Stavrakakis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens & IMDEA Networks & UC3M, Greece) |
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| TimeStream: Exploiting Video Streams for Clock Synchronization Ilir Capuni (University of New York Tirana, USA), Nertil Zhuri (University of New York Tirana, Albania) |
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| Reducing Network Bandwidth Requirements for Immersive Video Streaming Giuseppe Ribezzo (Politecnico di Bari, Italy), Luca De Cicco (Politecnico di Bari, Italy), Vittorio Palmisano (Politecnico di Bari, Italy), Saverio Mascolo (Politecnico di Bari, Italy) |
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| Multi-Objective Evolutionary Routing Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks Muhammad Faheem (Abdullah Gul University & Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Turkey), Md Asri Ngadi (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia & UTM, Malaysia), Vehbi Cagri Gungor (Abdullah Gul University, Turkey) |
Session 4: Network Optimization
Time: Wednesday, June 6, 2018 - 17:00 - 18:00
Chair: Dritan Nace
| Dimensioning of Hybrid FSO/fiber Networks Marinela Shehaj (Universite de Technologie de Compiegne, France); Dritan Nace (Compiegne University of Technology, France); Ilya Kalesnikau (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland); Michal Piaro (Warsaw University of Technology & Lund University, Poland) |
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| A New Theoretical Evaluation Framework for Satisfaction Equilibria in Wireless Networks Michail Fasoulakis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA); Symeon Papavassiliou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) |
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| A Mathematical Formulation to Optimize UAV Trajectories for WSN Data Collection Luigi Di Puglia Pugliese and Francesca Guerriero (University of Calabria, Italy); Nicola Roberto Zema (UTC - Universite de Technologie de Compiegne, France) |
Session 5: Physical Layer 1
Time: Thursday, June 7, 2018 - 8:30 - 9:45
Chair: Konstantinos Oikonomou
| Design, Implementation and Experimental Comparison between Two Dual Polarized 2.4GHz Microstrip Patch Antennas Haq Nawaz (Sabanci University Turkey, Turkey), Ibrahim Tekin (Sabanci University, Turkey) |
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| RLS Recovery with Asymmetric Penalty: Fundamental Limits and Algorithmic Approaches Ali Bereyhi (Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU), Germany), Mohammad Ali Sedaghat (Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany), Ralf R. Muller (Friedrich-Alexander Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany) |
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| Adaptive Error Control for Wireless Sensor Network-based Smart Grid Applications Melike Yigit (Bahcesehir University, Turkey), Pinar Sarisaray Boluk (Bahcesehir University, Turkey), Vehbi Cagri Gungor (Abdullah Gul University, Turkey) |
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| Quadrature Channel Modulation in the Presence of Channel Estimation Errors Hasan Pamukcu (Istanbul University, Turkey), Bahattin Karakaya (Istanbul University, Turkey), Ertugrul Basar (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey), Hakan A. Cirpan (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey) |
Session 6: Service Quality Measurements in Wireless Networks
Time: Thursday, June 7, 2018 - 10:00 - 10:45
Chair: Christoph F. Mecklenbrauker
| VoLTE Performance Analysis and Evaluation in Real Networks Bujar Krasniqi (University of Prishtina, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kosovo); Gentian Bytyqi (University of Prishtina, Kosovo); Driton Statovci (TU Wien, Austria) |
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| Modelling and Evaluation of Uplink and Downlink KPI Variations using Information Bottleneck and Non-parametric Hypothesis Taulant Berisha and Christoph F. Mecklenbrauker (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) |
Session 7: Signal Processing for Machine learning
Time: Thursday, June 7, 2018 - 13:30 - 14:45
Chair: Srdjan Stankovic
| Representation Learning with Trainable COSFIRE Filters Nicolai Petkov (University of Groningen) |
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| Analysis in Phase Diagram Domain for the Characterization of Non-stationary Signals Kevin Dayet (Universite Grenoble Alpes, France); Angela Digulescu (Military Technical Academy, Romania); Cornel Ioana (Institute National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France); Ion Candel (Grenoble INP, France); Alexandru Serbanescu (Military Technical Academy, Bucharest, Romania) |
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| Localized Renyi Entropy Based Sparse TFD Reconstruction Ivan Volaric (Faculty on Engineering, University of Rijeka, Croatia); Victor Sucic (University of Rijeka, Croatia) |
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| Iris Print Extracting from Reduced and Scrambled Set of Pixels Nedjeljko Lekic (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Montenegro, Montenegro); Andjela Draganic (University of Montenegro, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Montenegro); Irena Orovic and Srdjan Stankovic (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Montenegro, Montenegro); Vladan Papic (University of Split, Croatia) |
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| Large-scale Document Classification based on Stamp Detection Pjero Petej (University of Split & Financial Agency (FINA), Croatia); Zrinka Gligo and Dunja Gotovac (University of Split, Croatia); Sven Gotovac (University of Split & FESB, Croatia) |
Invited Talk: Josep Jornet
THz communications for 6G Systems
Time: Thursday, June 7, 2018 - 15:00 - 15:30
Session 8: Security & Authentication
Time: Friday, June 8, 2018 - 9:00 - 10:15
Chair: Georgios Giannakis
| PDA: A Policy-driven for Authorizations Scheme with uServices Georgios Katsikogiannis (University of Piraeus, Greece), Zacharenia Garofalaki (University of Piraeus, Greece), Dimitrios Kallergis (University of Piraeus, Greece), Christos Douligeris (University of Piraeus, Greece) |
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| On the Use of Ordered Biometric Features for Secure Key Agreement Dilara Akdogan (Sabanci University, Turkey), Duygu Karaoglan Altop (Sabanci University, Turkey), Albert Levi (Sabanci University, Turkey) |
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| Wi-Chain: Blockchain-based Approach for Anonymous Wireless Authentication Alfio Lombardo (University of Catania, Italy), Giacomo Morabito (University of Catania, Italy), Salvatore Quattropani (University of Catania, Italy), Daniele Sciacca (University of Catania, Italy) |
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| An Adjustable Forwarding Policy Exploiting Path Vulnerability in Wireless Sensor Networks Apostolos Demertzis (Ionian University, Greece), Konstantinos Oikonomou (Ionian University, Greece), Ioannis Stavrakakis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens & IMDEA Networks & UC3M, Greece) |
Session 9: Physical Layer 2
Time: Friday, June 8, 2018 - 13:30 - 14:45
Chair: Ralf Muller
| Nonlinear Digital Self-interference Cancellation for Full Duplex Communication Mikail Yilan (Sabanci University, Turkey), Ozgur Gurbuz (Sabanci University, Turkey), Huseyin Ozkan (Sabanci University, Turkey) |
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| Modeling Aggregate Interference with Heterogeneous Secondary Users and Passive Primary Users for Dynamic Admission and Power Control in TV Spectrum Zhongyuan Zhao (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA), Mehmet Can Vuran (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA) |
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| Underlay D2D Communications Power Allocation Scheme in Massive MIMO Networks Ravshan Aziz (TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey), Tolga Girici (TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey) |
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| Nano-Sensor Modeling for Intra-Body Nano-Networks Mustafa Alper Akkas (Abant Izzet Baysal University, Turkey) |
Session 10: SDN and mmWave for 5G
Time: Friday, June 8, 2018 - 15:00 - 16:15
Chair: Ozgur Gurbuz
| A Software-Defined Networking based Architecture for QoS-Aware IoT Communication in 5G Systems Luis Tello-Oquendo (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain), Ian F. Akyildiz (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA), Shih-Chun Lin (North Carolina State University, USA), Vicent Pla (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain) |
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| Beamforming for 5G Millimeter Wave Networks in Railway Scenarios Berna Bulut (University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain)) |
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| Performance Improvement of mmWave Cellular Communications in Indoor Environment Aleksandra Lopusina (University of Montenegro, Faculty of Electrical Engineering & Crnogorski Telekom, Montenegro), Enis Kocan (University of Montenegro, Montenegro), Milica Pejanovic-Djurisic (University of Montenegro & Centre for Telecommunications, Montenegro) |
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| SDAssist: A Software-Defined Relief Strategy with Drone-Cell Assistance Zemre Arslan (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey), Berk Canberk (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey |
Session 11: Cloud/Fog computing and CDN
Time: Friday, June 8, 2018 - 16:30 - 17:45
Chair: Josep M. Jornet
| Analysis of Multiple Random Walkers for Service Discovery in Fog Computing Network Environments Konstantinos Skiadopoulos (Ionian University, Greece), Konstantinos Giannakis (Ionian University, Greece), Konstantinos Oikonomou (Ionian University, Greece), Ioannis Stavrakakis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens & IMDEA Networks & UC3M, Greece) |
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| Wireless Cloud Network for Augmented Communication and Sensing in 5G Massive Industrial IoT Sanaz Kianoush (National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy), Stefano Savazzi (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche CNR, Italy), Vittorio Rampa (IEIIT - CNR, Italy), Monica Nicoli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Gloria Soatti (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Umberto Spagnolini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) |
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| WAE: Workload Automation Engine for CDN-specialized Container Orchestration Elif Ak (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey), Taner Ozdas (Medianova Internet AS), Serkan Sevim (Medianova Internet AS), Berk Canberk (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey) |
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| Virtualization in the Context of the Adaptive Environment on the Example of the Maritime Museum in Kotor Anastasiia Sochenkova (RUDN University, Russia), Natalia Podzharaya (RUDN University, Russia) |
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